Daily Dothttp://www.dailydot.com/Daily Dot Articleen-usMon, 03 Dec 2012 19:07:46 +0000Suspected murderer John McAfee blogs his escape from Belizehttp://www.dailydot.com/news/john-mcafee-blog-escape-belize-murder/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/7d/ac/7dac8bbdc0da93f412b39c1dd3ea2624.jpg'></p><p>
Suspected murderer John McAfee has made his clean escape from his adopted homeland of Belize&mdash;or so the antivirus software legend and cult-status fugitive would like you to believe.</p>
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This morning, McAfee, who&#39;s<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/society/7-ways-john-mcafee-killing-time/"> currently on the run</a> after being named as a suspect in November<a href="http://us.gizmodo.com/5959812/john-mcafee-wanted-for-murder"> murder of neighbor and fellow American expatriate Gregory Faull</a>, updated his fascinatingly rogue Wordpress blog with an update titled &quot;I am Safe.&quot;</p>
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&quot;I apologize for the silence, and misdirection,&quot; McAfee wrote. &quot;I am currently safe and in the company of two intrepid journalist from <em>Vice </em>Magazine, and, of course, Sam,&quot; his young lover who&#39;s joined him on his journey.</p>
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&quot;We are not in Belize, but not quite out of the woods yet. I will do a more detailed posting later today if all goes well. My &#39;double,&#39; carrying on a North Korean passport under my name, was in fact detained in Mexico for pre-planned misbehavior, but due to indifference on the part of authorities was evicted from the jail and was unable to serve his intended purpose in our exit plan.&quot;</p>
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That &quot;double&quot; he wrote about is likely the same person as the one detailed in a Dec. 1 blog post titled<a href="http://www.whoismcafee.com/breaking-john-captured/"> &quot;Breaking: John captured,</a>&quot; one that publicized an unconfirmed report that McAfee had been captured at the border of Belize and Mexico.</p>
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If you&#39;re wondering how McAfee could update his narrative if he was arrested in Mexico, remember that his <a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/11/cartoonist-chad-essley-john-mcafee/">friend Chad Essley has had a hand in the blog&#39;s production</a> since inception.</p>
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So just to recap: McAfee and Sam are on the lam in a foreign land with two Vice Reporters&mdash;who plan to post a video sometime Monday. They&rsquo;re both safe, &ldquo;well,&rdquo; he wrote, &ldquo;but extremely tired.&rdquo; McAfee added that he plans to return to Belize as soon as he can find a safe place for Sam to stay.</p>
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His body double, who was moving about Belize with a North Korean passport, is now safely out of Mexico after having been detained on the border for a bit.</p>
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His dog Tiger, who he&#39;d owned for nine years,<a href="http://www.whoismcafee.com/dog-poisoned-during-raid/"> was poisoned during a police raid</a> and reportedly &quot;fell down in convulsions, with the same symptoms displayed by the four dogs that were poisoned the night before Mr. Faul&#39;s [sic] death.</p>
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Gregory Faull&#39;s killer is still at large, though it&#39;s growing increasingly likely that McAfee&mdash;who has gone to such extreme lengths to preserve his ambiguity that he&#39;s hired body doubles with North Korean passports&mdash;is the culprit. How else would he know so much about those poisoned dogs,<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/john-mcafee-blogs-about-his-many-disguises.html"> who he never even liked in the first place</a>?</p>
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Or maybe he&#39;s just playing the world&#39;s largest game of hide-and-seek because he&#39;s got the money and he&#39;s got the time and he&#39;s got a woman by his side.</p>
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Either way, we&#39;re officially excited to see what kind of footage <em>Vice</em> ends up publishing later today. McAfee has gone clear off the reservation, and that alone makes for some must-see TV.</p>
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<em>Photo via <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=126049373190&amp;set=pb.126046108190.-2207520000.1354557040&amp;type=3&amp;theater">John McAfee</a>/Facebook</em></p>
chase@dailydot.com (Chase Hoffberger)Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:07:46 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/john-mcafee-blog-escape-belize-murder/NewsBlogsSociety